This guide is to help step you through setting up PeakHour for the first time. Getting Started. When you first launch PeakHour, the Configuration Assistant will appear and walk you through configuring your first device (or 'Target') to be monitored. A few things to know about Targets: A Target is a network device (such as your Internet router) or a network interface that is monitored by PeakHour. Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. Object moved to here.
This guide is to help step you through setting up PeakHour for the first time.
When you first launch PeakHour, the Configuration Assistant will appear and walk you through configuring your first device (or 'Target') to be monitored.
A few things to know about Targets:
- A Target is a network device (such as your Internet router) or a network interface that is monitored by PeakHour.
- When a target is monitored by PeakHour, you'll be able to see how much data the target is uploading and downloading. You can monitor the usage of the target over monthly period, view the history of usage over time, log the usage to a file and lots more.
- You can configure and monitor as many Targets as you wish.
Search for Devices
Search for Devices in the Configuration Assistant makes it as easy as possible to find compatible devices on your network.
PeakHour will automatically show UPnP-enabled routers that are found. If your router does not show up, check your router to ensure UPnP or 'Universal Plug and Play' is enabled. If you're still having trouble, see our UPnP Troubleshooting guide.
SNMP devices do not automatically advertise their presence. To add an SNMP device, you can either enter it's name or IP address manually via the Add SNMP Device..button or you can use the Scan for SNMP Devices option to actively search your network.
For detailed instructions on how to add an SNMP device, click here.
Verify settings
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The Validation screen analyses the configuration and attempts to show a real-time view of bandwidth throughput.
The following describes the what the analysis means:
Responding to queries | Whether or not the device is responding to (SNMP or UPnP) queries and returning meaningful responses. |
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Reporting bandwidth | Whether or not the device appears to be reporting bandwidth correctly. This will be Yes if PeakHour can see that the device / interface is reporting traffic moving through the device. Note that this can be Yes but the device or interface may not report bandwidth correctly. In order to ensure whats being reported matches up with what you expect, we recommend a test by either downloading a file of a known size or using a site like speedtest.net |
High Capacity Counters (SNMP only) | If this is Yes, the interface supports High Capacity (64-bit) counters. See High Capacity Counters for more information. |
If the graph appears to be showing throughput as you'd expect, click Next.
Finalise
The last screen in the Configuration Assistant lets you set a few important parameters:
Description | The name or description you wish to associate with this target. |
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Hide if unreachable | Only show this target if it can be seen and monitored by PeakHour. |
Swap inbound and outbound data | Some devices may report uploaded data as downloaded data and vice-versa. Check this box to swap download and upload data around. |
Display: Graph+Details View vs. Details Only view | Graph+Details means the target is shown with a graph in the main display. Details only means that only a summary is displayed. |
Show in Menu | Show this target's details (current upload/download speed and minigraph) in the menu bar. |
Once you're done, click Finish.
You should now see PeakHour running the menu bar, showing upload and download bandwidth:
Click on it to open the main PeakHour window and see a detailed real-time graph:
Didn't find any UPnP or SNMP-compatible devices?
Check out our FAQ on how to enable SNMP on Macs, Windows and Linux PCs.
- Check out how to set up Usage monitoring.
- Find out how to look back in time and report on long-term trends with the History view.
- Explore advanced configuration and features: Targets Tabs.
Still stuck? Drop us a line at [email protected].
Peak Hour Volume, Design Flow Rate, PHF
It is commonly known in your area that the heaviest traffic flow rates occur between 4:00 PM and 6:30 PM. Your assignment for the day is to find the peak hour volume, peak hour factor (PHF), and the actual or design flow rate for an existing one-lane approach. To do this, you obtain a click-counter and position yourself at the intersection. For each fifteen-minute interval, you record the numbers of right-turns, left-turns, straight-through trucks, and straight-through passenger cars. Your tabulated values are as shown below. Music tag pro 3 1 4.
Time Interval | Left Turns | Right Turns | ST Trucks | ST Cars |
4:00-4:15 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 30 |
4:15-4:30 | 6 | 15 | 8 | 26 |
4:30-4:45 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 35 |
4:45-5:00 | 7 | 16 | 8 | 40 |
5:00-5:15 | 10 | 13 | 6 | 49 |
5:15-5:30 | 9 | 12 | 12 | 55 |
5:30-5:45 | 14 | 15 | 8 | 65 |
5:45-6:00 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 50 |
6:00-6:15 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 39 |
6:15-6:30 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 30 |
Wifi scanner 2 7 4. If a truck is equal to 1.5 passenger cars and a right-turn is as well, and if a left-turn is equal to 2.5 passenger cars, then calculate the peak hour volume, peak hour factor (PHF), and the actual (design) flow rate for this approach.
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Solution
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The first step in this solution is to find the total traffic volume for each 15 minute period in terms of passenger car units. This is done by multiplying the number of trucks by 1.5, the number of right turns by 1.5, and the number of left turns by 2.5. We then add these three numbers and the volume of straight-through cars together to get the total volume of traffic serviced in each interval. Once we have this, we can locate the hour with the highest volume and the 15 minute interval with the highest volume. The peak hour is shown in blue below with the peak 15 minute period shown in a darker shade of blue.
Time Interval | Interval Volume (pcu) |
4:00-4:15 | 67 |
4:15-4:30 | 76 |
4:30-4:45 | 71 |
4:45-5:00 | 94 |
5:00-5:15 | 103 |
5:15-5:30 | 114 |
5:30-5:45 | 135 |
5:45-6:00 | 113 |
6:00-6:15 | 90 |
6:15-6:30 | 77 |
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The peak hour volume is just the sum of the volumes of the four 15 minute intervals within the peak hour (464 pcu). The peak 15 minute volume is 135 pcu in this case. The peak hour factor (PHF) is found by dividing the peak hour volume by four times the peak 15 minute volume.
PHF = 464 /(4 * 135) = 0.86
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The actual (design) flow rate can be calculated by dividing the peak hour volume by the PHF, 464/0.86 = 540 pcu/hr, or by multiplying the peak 15 minute volume by four, 4 * 135 = 540 pcu/hr.